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November 15, 2018, 11:30 AM

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New York Times:
Interviews with more than 50 people show how Facebook stumbled in dealing with multiple crises, which Zuckerberg and Sandberg initially tried to obscure  —  Sheryl Sandberg was seething.  —  Inside Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, top executives gathered in the glass-walled conference room of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
New York Times:
Facebook has ended its relationship with Definers Public Affairs, the consulting firm which cast George Soros as a force behind Facebook's critics  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has ended its relationship with a Washington-based consulting firm, Definers Public Affairs, which spread disparaging information …
Facebook:
Facebook responds to the NYT exposé, lists “number of inaccuracies” in the story, and denies it knew about Russian activity as early as spring of 2016  —  Yesterday The New York Times published an article about the past two years at Facebook.  There are a number of inaccuracies in the story, including:
Tom Spring / Threatpost:
Hackers breach iPhone X, Galaxy S9, and Xiaomi Mi6 and earn $325K for exposing 18 exploits at the Pwn2Own Tokyo 2018 contest  —  Three major mobile phone models - the Samsung Galaxy S9, iPhone X and the Xiaomi Mi6 - failed to survive the hacker onslaught at this year's Pwn2Own Tokyo 2018.
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch:
Uber reports Q3 net loss of $939M, up 32% QoQ, as revenue rose 38% YoY to $2.95B; gross bookings rose to $12.7B; Eats had gross bookings of $2.1B, up 150% YoY  —  Uber, which is expected to go public sometime next year, just released its Q3 2018 financial results.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook launches Unsend for Messenger, letting users delete messages within 10 minutes of posting, in Poland, Bolivia, Colombia, Lithuania; global rollout soon  —  Not just for Zuckerberg anymore  —  Facebook secretly retracted messages sent by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, TechCrunch reported seven months ago.
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Amazon Go competitor Standard Cognition raises $40M Series A led by Initialized Capital to expand its cashierless store solution  —  Cashierless shopping feels a little bit like magic.  There's something indescribably awesome about being able to grab something from a shelf, stuff it in a coat pocket …
More: TechCrunch
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Instagram adds new shopping features: redesigned business profiles, shop items from video posts, and save items to a shopping collecting  —  Instagram is continuing to build out its shopping features today with the announcement of three new product updates.
More: Engadget
Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat:
Discord launches Discord Early Access, giving its users access to unfinished games and the ability to give feedback to game studios  —  The Early Access concept is coming to Discord.  After launching its game store and subscription service in October, the communications platform is expanding …
More: Engadget

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